Huot Foster Home
Above: both real-size and 300% NN upscales of each map.
Exterior: Exterior is fairly standard, walled with large blocks of limestone and bordered with red brick. Â The base of the house is stone brick. Â A simple cement-slab porch with flat wooden railings sit in front of the front door. Â The front door is solid with an Open Hours sign on the front, and opens inward. Â A few large stones can be found on the property and are often decorated with chalk by the residents. Â A line of bushes lies immediately in front of the house and a cobblestone path leads the visitors from the main road to the house.
Interior: General In general, floors are a dark-stained hardwood with lighter wood in the hallways. Â Area rugs are in several rooms to ease the monotony, all from a set. Â The gist of furniture is light or dark wood. Â Windows are side-slide to open, though some windows cannot be opened. Â Decorations like photos, paintings, and portraits adorn most room and hallway walls.
Interior: Ground Floor The front door opens up to the main lobby. Â The front desk is to the left where Father does most of his work. Â Between the wall and far side of the desk is a stockroom for various office supplies, such as paper, folders, writing utensils, and so on. Â This is also where personal files are kept for each resident, as well as a couple cleaning supplies like towels and a broom. Across the hall from the lobby are four storage rooms for things like extra office supplies, furniture parts, tools, etc. Â Down the hall and to the left is a room containing the stairs to the upper floor, roughly in the center of the building. Down from here will lead to either a janitorial closet (left) or a narrow hallway leading to the back entrance (right). Â The broom closet contains tools, cleaning supplies, and things like paint and putty. Going further leads to two large common areas with sofas, tables, and things like books, games, art supplies, and a large toy chest. Â Typically when residents are enrolled they have few, if any, personal possessions, but they are given open and free access to whatever is owned by the home. Â Toys and other materials are resupplied or replaced should they get damaged or used up. The last two rooms are the kitchen (left) and staff lounge (right). Â The kitchen is fairly small, so often the staff lounge is used in conjunction to make food for the residents if needed. Â Staff usually eats after the residents, but some may eat with them instead. Â Food is usually eaten in the common area, though staff tries to eat in the lounge as often as possible.
Interior: Top Floor From the stairs the hallway splits left and right. Â Heading left first leads to an open area with a large window. Â This isn't really so much a room as it is just an open area, so its use varies. Â Just across from this is a large communal bathroom outfitted with several stalls and showers, both of which are entirely enclosed from top to bottom, preventing peeking and other hijinks. Â Two large sinks sit across the room from the stalls, large enough that two people can use one simultaneously if needed. Â To the side of the sinks is a basket for towels, cleaned and dried daily. Just past this are five bedrooms, each with a bunkbed, flat dresser (often also used as a desk or table), a small sidetable, a small garbage can, and a large area rug in the center of the room. Â Residents are allowed to take some things from the common areas to their rooms during the day provided they bring it back at night or when they're done using it. Â Some things are given to the residents outright, purchased separately and new (not taken from stocked shared items). Â Not many spend long in their rooms, nor is it a guarantee what each resident will enjoy for activities, so rooms lack much of the kinds of things found in common areas, hence they are purchased separately. Â This also includes the clothing found in dressers, as many have little or no clothing aside from what they're wearing during enrollment, so clothing is purchased with each resident to best fit them (literally and figuratively) provided what's desired is affordable. At the far end and to the left is one of the staff rooms, where staffmembers can usually be found at night should they be needed by sleeping residents. Â These rooms have books, art supplies, and lounge furniture freely available to better occupy bored staffmembers if needed. From the top of the stairs, taking a right leads to a similar set of rooms, this time for new faradens. Â Each room currently contains a tall wardrobe and small garbage can. Â Three of the rooms are not in use, one of them contains five residents and four futon-style beds. Â Two residents share one bed. Â The use is split this way out of personal preference for those residents, preferring to stay and sleep together by personal circumstance. Â Some of the rooms had seen use in the past during some harder times in the general/regional area, as needed. Â There is also another staff room just past the in-use bedroom. At the far end to the right is the headmaster's room, a large room functioning as both a bedroom and an office. Â One side of this room houses a simple dresser, a double futon, and a couple side tables. Â In the middle against the far wall is a large cabinet used for storing documents, personal information regarding employees and other connections, finances, and backups of resident files should they ever be needed. Â Reverend is usually working in this room if he can't be found at the front desk lobby and is rarely found outside of either location.
